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I can't afford the mount expansion and I think it's bullshit you can't have a mount without it.
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https://www.dlgamer.com/us/games/buy...-of-fire-43807
Both xpacs for $17.
Also, 2/3 of the game doesn't require a mount by design.
Last edited by PACOX; 2021-02-03 at 01:40 AM.
Resident Cosplay Progressive
Lack of direction. I dont know what I should be doing. I have several characters at lvl 80 but not sure what to do or how to get into it.
I mean I'm not going to tell you how to spend your money but mounts are an expansion feature. Technically you don't even unlock mounts until your done with most of the story unless you skip ahead. I think you'd be very disappointed with best mount features being locked behind grinds.
Resident Cosplay Progressive
That's sort of the thing with GW2 (and GW1 and maybe why both games are B2P) . You're not supposed to do anything. You do what you want. That works out for some people, not so much for others. Example, WoW there's clear goals once you get to level cap. In GW2 you can hit level cap before you even finish the vanilla story of the game. That's weird if you are used to WoW.
I play mostly raids and fractals, raids and M+ in Wonder basically. But in why you play that content for loot. In GW2 you play it for skins and to see how well you can master it. The latter is just insane to people I know who play WoW.
Resident Cosplay Progressive
The mount system, i just couldnt get the hang of it... rest was fine for me tbh
Came back half a year ago and got both expansions during the anniversary sale. I had two expansions worth of unpopulated zones ahead of me. The ridiculously in your face sjw writing that me drop the game when the living story got started about 2 years after release is still there.
I played a bit of both expansions. The raptor mount is neat. Lion's arch was ruined to push sales of their vip subsciption teleport + convenience hubs. WvW is still fun but repetitive. There is still no motivation (i.e., gear treadmill) to play PvE. The game is janky and ageing badly due to Dx9. There is still no official dps measuring addon support.
Last edited by Shadowroxxor; 2021-02-03 at 05:20 PM.
It's how you earn them. The mounts are earned and can only be purchased within the zones for that expansion.
As others have said, the mounts are a feature of that expansion so it makes sense you'd need it to gain access to it.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "expansion model." I can't really think of any game that allows you to pay one price up front and have access to every feature, expansion, DLC etc.. that they release forever as long as that game keeps making new content. That's not a sustainable business model.
B2P simply means you have access to everything that comes with the box. An expansion is an extension of that and you only gain access to it once you purchase it. Outside of that box price there are no additional fees.
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What specifically are you referring to? Because I'm not really seeing anything overtly "SJW" and am playing through the Living Story of the Path of Fire Expansion.
I don't remember, and can't find in a relatively short search, that they announced or presented GW2 never having paid expansions. I could be wrong.
I find it highly doubtful that's something they would ever say and commit to. That kind of business model would be a death sentence for an MMO.
Maybe they said something that was interpreted that way, but that's not what it actually meant?
I gave it so many chances already but i came to realise that despite loving GW1 and the world, and i will admit that meta events are awesome, i just don't like the game. I don't like the combat, i dont like how the game is unwelcoming, the amount of trash items, the F2P restrictions made for you to spend money and the lack of trinity.
I tried so hard and still have it installed, but i am so tired of it. It has magical moments, but it's so boring.
I'm at the point where i would like to see Cantha, but i don't see how it will be any different than all the other maps. Events, meta event, sloppy combat, contless new trash items and collections. I just don't want anymore. I haven't even finished the icebrood saga. I lost interest.
I really want a GW3, sub based, trinity, combat more like GW1, gear progression, raids, dungeons.
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Had blast leveling up but once I hit max level, the max level contents just doesn't seem interesting enough to hold me.
I can't believe they are going to release a new expansion soon and the game is still poorly optimised for multicore machines. It really makes me stop enjoying the game and checking it's content
...but why? They never said they wouldn't be doing expansions, and they'd long since set the precedent with GW1 expansions.
I don't think they ever said this, actually. And I worked on the game for a while pre-launch. It having expansions doesn't make it "not" B2P. It still technically is, though it's got the F2P base option now too. The LS updates would be delivered in between expansions. That was always the public plan as far as I remember.
I don't know of any GW2 player who had played GW1 who didn't expect expansions.
It's definitely not in the Manifesto, so if you got a link sling it over.
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